Bergers and Baseball: Sights & Snorkeling

The reality that our trip is coming to an end is getting stronger and stronger, and just plain depressing! We are having a blast relaxing, sight-seeing, and just spending the time together that, honestly, we haven't been able to spend together in months!

The last two days have been full of more adventures and we've come to realize that we've gotten to know the island pretty well and are able to roam around and navigate without the help of our GPS on our phones anymore! Woohoo!

Day 4 was a beach day. We spent some time snorkeling at Anini Beach just a few miles southeast of where we are up on the north shore. The water was nice and the weather was great, it just wasn't the amazing snorkeling we got spoiled with at Hanauma Bay on Oahu in 2007.

Day 5 (yesterday) was a long day of driving around sight-seeing after our original plan of snorkeling all day failed! Our first day here we drove to "the end of the road" up on the North Shore where the Hawaii 560 literally ends at Ke'e Beach, and you hit Tunnels Beach right before Ke'e. These spots, mostly Tunnels Beach, are supposed to be some of the best snorkeling on the island so we knew we had to come back here for some snorkeling during our trip. We read in one of our Hawaii guides that Tunnels Beach on Kauai and Hanauma Bay on Oahu are two of the best spots to snorkel on the Hawaiian islands and we did Hanauma Bay in 2007 so we had to do Tunnels, too! Unfortunately the surf was too high and the beaches located on the Northern shore were closed for swimming/surfing/snorkeling. So instead we wandered around the caves for a bit, stopped and enjoyed a shaved ice on the way back to the condo, then took a drive south to enjoy some sights and continue to break in our brand new rental car for its' future drivers. =) We enjoyed a nice dinner at Duke's in Lihue then headed back north for the evening.